I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

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• Helen Dunmore:

  I was always influenced by language.

• Helen Dunmore:

  I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe

• Helen Dunmore:

  I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending da

• Helen Dunmore:

  I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and nev

• Helen Dunmore:

  I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture,

• Helen Dunmore:

  I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

• Helen Dunmore:

  I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

• Helen Dunmore:

  I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now.

• Helen Dunmore:

  However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a histor

• Helen Dunmore:

  However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great momen